Santa Clara, Calif., July 14, 2008 – FastScale® Technology, Inc, provider of next generation software virtualization and provisioning solutions, today announced a new North America Channel Program with eight partners already signed including Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC, Continental Resources, Inc., International Computerware, Inc., New Age Technology, SecureTek Group, Inc., VirtaCORE, Inc., Whitewater Data, and Xcedex. Data center demand for the company's innovative technologies exceeded expectations during the first year of availability, and skilled partners will provide customers with greater access to products, technical expertise, and related services offerings centered on FastScale's unique technologies.

“Channel partners are fundamental to our success in educating customers, supporting the adoption of new innovation, and meeting the demand for FastScale’s solutions,” said Lynn LeBlanc, CEO of FastScale. “We are extremely pleased to have these outstanding organizations as our partners. The combination of their thorough understanding of data center solutions, knowledge of our joint customer needs, and deep FastScale expertise ensures the highest possible customer success with the FastScale technology.”

FastScale's breakthrough innovations address the urgent market need for more adaptive software infrastructure in large IT organizations by delivering an entirely new kind of software virtualization and provisioning solution. FastScale Composer Suite is the only technology that delivers a completely automated and dynamic management and deployment platform for both Windows and Linux servers in physical, virtual and hybrid infrastructures alike. With compact software environments built on-demand, automatic patch and configuration management, and lightweight provisioning in only seconds, the entire server infrastructure, both physical and virtual, can adapt to constantly changing demands on the fly. Moreover, because of the small memory footprint, benchmark tests have shown 3X the number of virtual machines can run on a physical server without degrading performance. These capabilities deliver strong value to enterprise IT teams looking to further increase infrastructure utilization and flexibility.

"Our customers face an increasing number of challenges in the data center ranging from deployment of virtual servers, management of complex heterogeneous environments, power and floor space constraints, and system administrator shortages, just to name a few," said Rob Miller, CEO of VirtaCORE. "Once we realized a solution like FastScale existed, we quickly added it to our portfolio. It provides our customers with a fully automated approach to building, managing and deploying server software in the enterprise - dramatically streamlining infrastructure and saving time and money across the board."

For more information about FastScale, visit www.fastscale.com. To learn more about the FastScale North America Channel Program, visit http://www.fastscale.com/partners/index.shtml.

FastScale Composer Suite with support for Windows is available now. Pricing starts at $30,000. For more information, visit http://www.fastscale.com.

FastScale Composer Suite is an entirely new approach to managing software environments - from start to finish. Only with FastScale is server software automatically streamlined by an average of 95%, built on-demand and then provisioned to bare metal or virtual servers in seconds. Because FastScale software environments are so compact, the entire server infrastructure is a dynamic pool of compute resources, able to run any application at any time. FastScale Composer Suite is an elegant, scalable solution that delivers three times more virtual servers without degrading performance, enables overall infrastructure utilization to above 90%, reduces systems administration by more than 75%, and fully eliminates both physical and virtual server sprawl.

FastScale Technology delivers a new generation of software virtualization and provisioning solutions for enterprise-class Web farms and data centers. Through its patent-pending technologies, FastScale enables IT organizations to build, manage and deploy complex and dynamic software environments with unparalleled simplicity, flexibility and security while achieving dramatic lifecycle cost savings and server utilization improvement. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, FastScale is a privately held company backed by leading venture capital firms including ATA Ventures, Leapfrog Ventures and Hunt Ventures. For more information, visit www.fastscale.com.